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Fifth day of travelling for me yesterday, with first wake up in Turin city.
I woke up early in the morning to go out and have a cheap breakfast, and I’ve sadly figured out that in these days mornings aren’t that hot. 15 degrees are too few ffor me 🙁
I’ve bought my stuff from an automated vending machine and I came back to start my daily activities, just after a taste of good Lavazza coffee, commercial partner of Attic Hostel.

The hostel’s living room

Travel Blogger’s life

Now, without writing out so much details because I could be boring for somebody, I have to admit that in these first days of blogging I have revalued my opinion about the complexity of this kind of works. Honestly I believed that it would have been easier and less onerous. I have discovered that to update daily an online travel diary, create multilingual contents, build up even amateur movies and add slightly edited photos you need a lot of time. Not considering that the blog also needs more and numerous other activities for advertising, optimization, networking and sharing.
I have to say that, apart from a small lunch break from 2 PM to 2.30 PM, I wasn’t able to close my computer until 4 PM.

SoloAround.com travel blog 🙂

However not bad at all, in the living of the hostel the staying was really comfortable. How many guests here are saying, the atmosphere is so familiar that you feel like home in their place.
Talking about this, I also had the opportunity of have a lunch with the owner’s family, as you can see from the daily video, noting how much love for hospitality is not only a business attitude for who is doing this kind of jobs. My best compliments.
I take this opportunity to describe the whole structure.

Attic Hostel, Turin

The Attic Hostel is an elegant hostel located a few meters from the Porta Nuova train station in Turin.
The location is extremely charming, obtained from an attic in an ancient palace situated in Piazza Paleocapa.

The front side of Attic Hostel in Piazza Paleocapa, Turin

Getting into the building, you can reach the entrance at the fifth floor of the palace by using a comfortable elevator. Here you are immediatly welcomed in the beautiful living room of the hostel.
This business has a very particular story: Carlo and Silvana, the owners, are a couple of architects whose in a moment of change in their life, have decided to mix their skills about structuring and furnishing premises with the passion about hospitality, creating Attic Hostel in March of 2017.

The entrance of the hostel

Spaces are rich of details, and the ambient gives to the guests good feelings, even to people that are not so usual with staying in a hostel.
There are different kind of rooms, single, doube and small dorms.

Double room

One nice feature of this place is about castle beds situated in every dorm: they are the result of a design project made by the owners and artigianally realized by a local blacksmith, really charming touch for the whole situation.

These zones and the nearby monuments are the icons of Piedmontese chief town, historical symbols not only for the city but of the entire nation, and I’ve wanted to make you able to reach the stateliness and the beautiness of these sites filming them with long shots inside the 360 degrees daily video, in order to let you calmly scroll the frame for the best possible experience in viewing the architectural and cultural show.

Palazzo Reale, Piazza Castello, Torino

Video and music

In today’s video I’m starting with a little panoramic view inside the Attic Hostel, including a bit of the shared lunch had with the staff; after that I show you the best squares and monuments all over Turin. The soundtrack is the song “Maggie” singed by piedmontese artist Sergio Moses, who’s in Spotify with the album “Fuori di me”.

That’s all for today, I’m going to reach Milan, first with a train from Turin to Vercelli and next with this bicycle itinerary:

Yesterday was really a great day!
I woke up in Alessandria with an enjoyable climate, a wonderful sun with a slight wind that waved out all the clouds in the sky, and a thrilling clear sky. Maybe this is why my ugly morning selfie is a bit less ugly

Second bicycle step: Alessandria – Torino

So I’ve left Alessandria to reach Turin with the map in my pocket. The choosen itinerary meets in the first stage the village named Quargnento, with its beautiful square. Following the entire gps data for the itinerary from Garmin website.

Here started a route articulated in the hills of Montferrat , World Heritage Site named by Unesco, and it’s really unique.
Thanks even to the perfect climate condition of the day to enjoy a bicycle ride, I was enlightened from the beauty of hills sights in these zones, that creates a series of ups and downs embedded in dreamy landscapes fantastic for riding and shooting.

Countryside near Montemagno

The zone that I liked more than others wa surely the one between villages of Fubine – Altavilla – Montemagno – Grana. I’ve shooted a lot of photographies of the surrounding hills, but I don’t put all of them in the blog because there are too much.

Countryside in Monferrato

Going straight the street is becoming flat for a small period, to change again with altitude later, never too much honestly. Very nice the land between Cunico, Piea and Boscorotondo.
Passing through the city of Chieri, I was approaching the final stage of the daily itinerary, that had the hardest altitude difference in the day: the hill of Pino Torinese: its 500 meters above the sea level.
In proximity of this hill I’ve took a wrong way, even for few hundred meters. The web service I use for drawing itineraries doesn’t know that the Pino’s tunnel is forbidden for bicycles. Not bad at all however, for this reason I had the opportunity to cross the hill’s peak and to enter the city of Turin from the panoramic Corso Chieri.

Turin view from Corso Chieri

Turin and the Attic Hostel

Entering Turin from this zone is magnificent, first of all you’ll find the Ponte Vittorio Emanuele I and then the Ponte Umberto I, both massive looking creating a junction between the two shores of Po river, the biggest Italian river that is flowing through the city.
Near the Porta Nuova train station, I’ve reached in few meters the accommodation place that will host me in these two days in Turin: it’s the Attic Hostel, high class hostel situated in Piazza Pietro Paleocapa. I’ve been immediately welcomed with a regal treatment by the owners Carlo and Silvana, whom are really enthusiastic to join the Biking Italy Tour and wanted to shoot a photo together.

Riccardo and Carlo, Attic Hostel. Turin

In tomorrow’s post I will describe with more details this wonderful place.
After a regenerating shower and a pleasant chat with the owners, I get out to reach the city center in order to have a dinner in the restaurant suggested to me by Paolo of Foodo, the food blog that follows my trip to write about Italian regional cuisine and create in their kitchen the dishes that I taste around the Country.
Arrived in front of the restaurant I’ve discovered with big disappointment that it was closed for holidays until 5th September.
I had to taste the agnolotti, typical fresh pasta dish of these zones, so I moved to a district full of cafes. Unfortunately I hadn’t the opportunity to taste that plate, but I ate some great “tajarins” at “da Cianci”, famous local tavern.

Tajarins @ Tavern da Cianci

Video and music

In the spherical video of this Sunday the shootings are principally dedicated to the bicycle itinerary, and the soundtrack is gently provided by Li Bassi, singer and writer from Turin that with the track “La sindrome del salmone” gives us a funny and groovy melody for the forth 360 degrees video of BIT.

After two days discovering Genoa, perched regional capital of wonderful Liguria, yesterday finally was the right moment to move my legs.
The target for the day is to pass the Appennino Ligure near the Bocchetta Pass, to reach without hurry the Po Valley and the city of Alessandria. Circa 80 kilometers with discrete altitude difference.

I like so much the ugly morning selfie

First step by bicycle

The day started with blog related activities, that are becoming an enjoyable habit. After a light but energetic breakfast, a bit of social media.
La giornata inizia con le attività di blogging, che stanno diventando una piacevole abitudine. Dopo colazione, leggera ma energetica, un po’ di social media. Managing Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Instagram, contents and activities to manage are not few 🙂
After thanked and greeted the Manena Hostel, at about 11:30 AM I was able to be on the street with my bicycle. The backpack, with its 12 kilograms weight, wasn’t properly light, but the enthusiasm of the first travelling day made me feel it lighter.
To introduce properly the biking subject, I need to show you the vehicle that will accompany myself in the 2400 kilometers of the Biking Italy Tour. It’s a 2016 Specialized Tarmac with Axis wheels and brakes, Shimano 105 gear and 25 millimeters tires.

My Specialized Tarmac

Bocchetta Pass

Reached the Polcevera creek, honestly without any water, I turned right in direction of SP 35 – SP 5. The street that brings to the villages named Campomorone, Langasco and Pietralavezzara is historical: it follows the ancient roman itinerary of Via Postumia. In some sections the sights of Appennini are really suggestive.

The Ligurian Appennino

Passed with satisfaction and fatigue the quoted Bocchetta Pass at 772 meters above the sea level, the Piedmont region is reached with fast and panoramic downhills. These streets for biking lovers are famous for being the hometown itineraries of the great Fausto Coppi, big champion in the last century.
In this moment I’ve met Sergio, nice biker living in these zones that had the gentleness of offer me a coffee and ride with me for some kilometers. Thank you Sergio!

Me, Sergio and a bikers lover dog-sized horse

The arrival in Alessandria zone

Going straight the route continues to lose altitude, crossing the villages of Gavi and Novi Ligure. At a certain point, following the directions of an anonymous road signal, I got in a very tight street that was supposed to go to Alessandria, discovering that the last segment wasn’t asphalted. Not bad at all, in this way I’ve tested the strongness of my brand new Michelin tires mounted on my bicycle. Here below the gps track of the itinerary Genoa – Alessandria.

B&B Arcobaleno, Alessandria

B&B Arcobaleno, Alessandria

The arrival in Alessandria at Bed & Breakfast Arcobaleno have pleasently surprised me for the beauty and the hospitality of its places located in a palace made in 1800. Big thanks to the staff really enthusiastic to join the project.

Sight from the patio of B&B Arcobaleno

The locals, numerous, spacious, new and coloured, are arranged in an internal yard that accommoodate even the breakfast room.

The “Verde” room of B&B Arcobaleno

If you are in transit in the beautiful Alessandria I suggest to stay in this wonderful example of italian hospitality.

Not to miss in Alessandria

When in the city is a visit to the Cittadella is a must. It’s a permanent fortress build up in the eighteenth century that’s a national monument, historical site extremely fascinated.

Cittadella of Alessandria

I even suggest a visit to the city center: Corso Roma is a street really coloured and full of life.

Corso Roma, Alessandria

Video and Music

The 360 degrees video of this day is mainly dedicated to the road trip made with the bicycle, with spare views from the destination city. The soundtrack of the video is gently provided by The Wonderland, young band from Piedmont, and the title of the track is “The Promised Land”.

Now it’s time to shutdown the computer, I’m departing to Turin with this itinerary:

Genoa walking tour

The experience started well: multiethnic group of 13 people and I was the only italian. Everybody were nice and very smiley, and our guide was a greek guy that was obviously speaking only in english. Wonderful
We really made a beautiful tour of the city, that I’ve tracked down with my gps watch. In its opinion we made more than 10 kilometers in 4 ours, but I think that at a certain moment it went out crazy tracking a sort of teleportation to the pier, in that zone the gps cover wasn’t that good.
However here below you can see the whole itinerary.

Spyros, our guide for the day, is a really charismatic leader. He rapidly involved us in the city atmosphere with excellent savoir-faire, showing remarkable communication skills and great historical knowledge about the territory. With high proficiency he was able to guide us in a long tour discovering the genoan center, enriching the experience with lots of citations coming from the glorious “zeneise” past alternated with funny things about modern customs and traditions. A big thanks to him and who with him gives soul and body in order to promote their own city.

The video of the day is totally dedicated to this long city excursion in the streets of the historical center, you can spot a lot of places from the previous list and is visible here below, in 360 degrees mode.

Maybe Heaven is similar to the vision of this artist

Music

The soundtrack for the day is an occasion to greet and thank the Società Cooperativa di Multiservizi per lo Spettacolo Esibirsi, media partner of Biking Italy Tour. From the roster of this company comes the genoan artist Chiara Ragnini, whom has gently gived us the rights to use the song “In ogni angolo del mondo” for the second step of the journey.
The whole album “La Differenza” is available on Spotify.

The Manena Hostel in the historical center of Genoa

As promised yesterday, in this post I’m going to describe in a more detailed way the accommodation that welcomed me in these two days in the Ligurian capital.
The Manena Hostel is the first hostel born in the historical center of Genoa, made in 2012 by Giulio and Manuel. The building is really nice, with a typical high vertical development.

The entrance of Manena Hostel, Genoa

The staff is nice and cozy, the service is excellent, with three rooms for 5, 8 and 12 people and the toilets are several, big and always clean.

One Manena Hostel’s room

Prices are really convenient and moreover, as written before, the hostel is an organizer and promoter of the city walking tour already described in the last video. Another plus is a local cuisine experience: if interested you can book a small course that teaches you how to prepare the famous Pesto alla Genovese.

The kitchen of Manena Hostel

The visiti s highly recommended by me, for the reasons described before.

Manena Hostel’s living room

I’ve made with the boss Manuel a 360 degrees video in order to show you why and how this hostel is really beautiful.

Everything for today people, now I’m going to ride my bike to Alessandria (TO), for the very first biking step of this journey, with a light but unlikeable drizzle.
This is my itinerary for today:

The big day

The big day is finally arrived: yesterday at Genoa Biking Italy Tour is started.
I’m really excited, I could not wait to start this wonderful adventure.
So let me start telling you the first gorgeous day of this long trip.
For climatic reasons, I decided to face up these 2400 kilometers across the whole Italy passing through the north side of the Country at the beginning, in order to avoid any possibility of meeting up with cold situations at the end of the travel, because I will run with my bicycle until almost mid October.
To so do, I had to move from my home in the deep North East, in Friuli Venezia Giulia, to the longitudinally opposite side: the Liguria region.

Wake up selfie, known modern pathology

Personal driver

Yesterday morning, after a huge breakfast, I’ve finish to pack luggages, my brand new giant 34 litres backpack and the bicycle, dismounted in a travel bag for the occasion. Meanwhile the personal driver that I’ve hired for the special event has reached my house: for privacy reasons I can’t write his name, but I’ve obtained the rights of publishing the videos took with the 360 degrees cam. Expectable, by the way, my friend is a very important person 🙂
Together we arrived at Casarsa della Delizia train station, where the great Mattia was waiting us. I have to thank him for the wishes and for the motivational coaching 😀

Me, the driver and Mattia in Casarsa station

In train

At 10.55 AM, really on time, my train has departed going to Genoa. An enjoyable trip through the Po Valley, in a great day to travel: not too much sun and neither too much hot outside. On board a nice poutpourri of people, college students in slow recovery, business men and women on work transfer, flushed seniors not too much confidents with train doors, and even a couple of albanian newlyweds living in Milan since 15 years that, going on holiday to Massa Carrara, told me in secret that their dream is moving to Tuscany before they’re getting old. Best wishes to everybody 🙂

An end of August train

Manena Hostel

Small delays in the journey haven’t ruined the entire voyage, all the train links went good and I arrived at Genoa train station almost at 6 PM. I’ve remounted my two wheels companion and I’ve flown in the direction of the first accommodation that hosts me in this travel: the Manena Hostel, very likeable hostel in the city center that have welcomed me and my Biking Italy Tour project with an enthusiastic mood becoming one of my first sponsors. Today I will make a shoot in their premises so tomorrow you can admire it in all its beauty.

Focacceria Da Boris, Genoa

Focacceria Da Boris

After a little shower I went to the first step of the trip, dedicated to food: the pizzeria focacceria Da Boris, recommended to me by Paolo from Foodo, that will work for the whole period with the project. He will give me food tips for the most famous destinations, while writing on his food blog about recipes related to the recommended plates coming from the whole Italian Country. Thanks, Paolo! 😀

Cheese Focaccia 🙂

360° video

In order to complete with some relax the first day, four hours in front of the computer are always a good therapy. I’ve exceeded midnight at the keyboard but I absolutely had to write out this article and moreover the first 360 degrees video of this journey: taste it here below, or on YouTube, paying attention to the moving perspective on the screen, you can see the places as you’ve been there with me 🙂

I can’t wait for it, months of preparation are going to concretize.
The bicycle is already at the mechanic store for latest works on, but I will take it tomorrow morning. Thanks a lot to Renzo from EuroBike, Casarsa della Delizia, for the incredible working speed 🙂
I had the opportunity to tell my willing about realizing this idea to a lot of people, I have to say that they give me more positive feedbacks that I could have imagined.
I want thank here my friends and my relatives that have shown me their support and their willing to follow my trip around the Italian peninsula when they’ve received the news.
Thank you very much, it’s very beautiful feeling you with me 🙂
I have obviously received even less enthusiastic opinions, but you can’t please everyone.

In these days a lot of things happened, the project had a good presence in media thanks to the support made by TelePordenone, a local television, and two newspapers, Il Gazzettino and the Messaggero Veneto.

BIT has also received the first official sponsorship from Froggy Line company, located in Spilimbergo (PN), that produces custom cycling clothing.
Thanks to them I will be able to bring around Italy the blog’s logo and the website address, with their brand name printed on the uniform. I’m going to add a photo of the great work done by them soon 🙂

The accommodations that has decided to join the project are raised at 16, so I will write a good number of reviews for the various hostels, bed and breakfasts and hotels that I’ll find on my route.

I’ve done a lot of training in these weeks, and thanks to my new ‘toys’ made by Garmin I’ve realized the first 360 degrees video of this travel blog, that is a preview of what you’ll see daily in my posts, where the video pills will be posted with the daily summary. Here below you can see this preview, directly from my YouTube channel, and the complete itinerary of that training session.

I’m going to finish with a couple of photos to show very quickly what I will pack in my backpack and how you can fill very good a wonderful one 😀

That’s all for today, see you tomorrow, starting from Casarsa della Delizia’s train station at 11 AM circa 🙂

If you’ve already read the page with some informations about me, you’ll probably know that travels are a part of my lifestyle since long time.

Since my youth my parents loved to bring me with them in the spare trips that my family have done in Italy and Europe.

Together we’ve done so much camping in Italy, near the sea and in the mountains, visiting sometimes even France, Greece and Croatia. Surely I’ve to thank them for my passion about travels.

In the last ten years, alone or with friends, I’ve done about 40 trips around the World.
Somebody of you could say that isn’t that much, but for me it’s a very good amount and I’m proud of it.

In this article I want to show chronologically, from 2008 until today, all my past trips.
It’s a sort of “Traveller’s resume”, as I wrote in this post’s title.
This is for helping me not to forget anything in the future, and even to share with you my experiences.

Unfortunately even if I’ve made a lot of vacations, trips, travels, excursions, I didn’t save a lot of analog or digital memories. There is no specific reason about that, but even this aspect made me thinking about creating this blog to fill my lack of informations.

One fun fact: as I told you I have a very little amount of material saved from my travels, but I’ve stored a lot of receipts from all over the World. It’s quite weird, I know, but it has to be a sort of beware of the money spent 🙂

Riccardo’s trips, 2008 -> 2017

This is me during a Via Ferrata on the Mount Coglians

2008

London, July/August

First autonomous travel , with friends; I lived in Hammersmith for 36 days, even working as waiter in the famous Camden Town district. Here you can see the view from our flat located in 109 Hammersmith Grove.

2009

London, March

I falled in love with the lifestyle of Britain’s capital and I come back in short time, only for a week, with my old friend Alberto Marzinotto, mainly to buy some vinyls. Now he’s a famous dj, but this is another story.

Umag, June

Four-days trip with some friends in a camping with bungalows in the north side of Croatia.

Barcelona and London, August

For the first time two destinations in a single travel, and first time too to the Catalonia capital in Spain. For this trip I haven’t photographic witnesses 🙁

Bruxelles and Amsterdam, December

First north-European adventure, and thanks to my first car rental with Hertz company, first credit card of my life 🙂 An itinerant journey from the capital of Belgium through L’Aia arriving in the end at the Venice of the north. Zero photographies too even here.

2010

London, January

I started to feel too much nostalgia of my favourite capital, moreover Ryanair in that period proposed a lot of flights for a little money, so… why not come back 🙂

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, February

For the first time I put my feet into Canary Islands in this occasion, and it was immediately true love. In these places where winter don’t exists and the life seems to be always more quiet we should go more often.

London, May

Do I made you understand that going to London when I have spare time makes me happy? 🙂

Amsterdam, July

Another adventure in Amsterdam, this time with other friends of mine. Here below a photographic memory from the worst hotel in the World, the Hans Brinker

Lloret De Mar and Barcelona and Tenerife, August

Here we have three steps in an unique journey, for a typical young summer holiday in the name of binge drinking 🙂

Frankfurt, November

First travel dedicated to the music, more precisely to clubbing: in four we left Venice Treviso airport to reach the Cocoon Club in Frankfurt, specialized in techno music.
Following an obscured but intense memory fro that night.

2011

London, January

Fifth time in the grey London, always looking for KFC, in those times not in Italy anymore.

Amsterdam, March

Another step in the Venice of the North, very sweet place for me.

London, May

Very first experience in a trip organized exclusively to reach a music club. Having found some roundtrip flight tickets for less than 10 euros, we decided to depart on Saturday afternoon from home, have dinner in a londoner fast food, dance until the morning lights in the house club named Fabric and finally come back with the midday flight in order to be home again on Sunday afternoon. Easy, right? 🙂

Budapest and Siofok, August

First Hungarian adventure, thanks to some friends known in the sunny Bibione, that helped me to discover the wonders of the greatest Magyar city, Budapest, and the Hungarian capital of night and beach life, Siofok, over the Balaton lake.

Amsterdam, September

Despite a language for me not so much thrilling and a quite cold climate, the Dutch capital goes straight into my top 3 preferred destinations.

Barcelona, October

About a year after the first musical themed trip, in October 2011 is the turn of the festival Sensation White, dance event with the peculiarity of applying a rigid dress code: all dressed in white, none excluded. The result was very satisfying. The picture below is a bit dark and not in focus, but I guarantee we were beautiful 🙂

London, November

Intense and lucky year the 2011, I managed to go 3 times into the British capital. This time I went out with friends in the famous Hamleys in Regent Street, the biggest and oldest toy shop in the World.

Fuerteventura, December

New island in the archipelago of eternal spring.
Nuova isola nell’arcipelago dell’eterna primavera. Enjoy a warm climate when it’s snowing in your city is one of the most powerful stress therapies.

2012

Malta, June

New entry in the Mediterranean Sea’s destinations: the beautiful and touristic Malta. In the following photo an example of typical June’s sky in that zone 🙂

Cyprus, August

The 2012 was for me a year strong in exploration of Mediterranean islands: wonderful week with friends in Cyprus island, with fantastic excursions with a boat and a magnificent villa with pool. Driving in the left side of the road made us a bit disoriented but we felt like home in a short time.

Munich, October

Once in a lifetime everybody should visit Munich during Oktoberfest: the city, invaded by thousands of people having in common the passion for beer and wurstels, become a giant playground for adults and children.

Amsterdam, November

More than a year since my last visit in Holland, I had to recover 🙂

2013

Prague, February

First time for the modern capital of Czech Republic, a cold trip that I almost missed (I was nearly to lose my ID before departure) but it went out very funny, living the best of Czech nightlife in this wonderful city.

Barcelona, May

In this new step in the Catalonia’s capital I had the pleasure of visiting the Picasso Museum, that I absolutely recommend to everybody that goes around those places.

Lanzarote, September

The definitive Canary Islands experience. The feeling of land over the Moon and live completely outside the World. Lanzarote is probably my favourite island in the archipelago. It absolutely deserves a visit for every passionate of sea and quiet places.

Bath, December

Travelling to visit an expatriate friend I’ve crossed Italy to take a plane in Pisa and reach this British suburb really tidy and particular. Priceless the daily trip to Stonehenge, UNESCO World Heritage Site.

2014

Turin and Oslo, April

One of my first solo travels, with the first step in the Piedmontese chief town guest of some friends, in order to reach the capital of the cold Norway. A unique country, able to give to the tourist really singular landscapes and emotions. In the photo a detail of the majestic Frogner Park.

Rovinj, August

Following the footsteps of my childhood in this summer I had the pleasure of making a camping week in Croatia, in the zone nearby a small village named Rovinj. Low frequented beaches, crystal water, delicious fish and cheap prices are the reasons that should convince everybody to go almost once in these places.

London, November

I can’t even understand how could be possible for me staying away from London for three long years.

Dahab, November

Fantastic journey in the name of sport with my father to practice some windsurf in the Sinai peninsula. A special mention is deserved by the Blue Lagoon bay, spot where people makes daily excursions that gives them the opportunity to taste the everyday life of beduins.

2015

Lanzarote and Amsterdam, May

In this period I started to become quite expert with solo adventures, and passing from the quite summer heat of Canary Islands to the spring warmth of Netherlands within two weeks was an unusual experience.

Tokyo and Hiroshima and Kyoto and Osaka, August

My first intercontinental travel.
A unique and unrepeatable experience, starting with the charm of the enormous plane used for this kind of long distances. Living two weeks in the other side of the World was amazing, diving into customs and traditions completely different from the Westerns ones was really wonderful and I was extremely fascinated about the stateliness and the particularity of the Nipponic country.

Amsterdam, December

New step in Holland. Even this capital is included in the Top 3 chart of favourite destinations.

London, December

Just to close the year at the best 🙂

2016

Corfu, May

Thanks to an interesting Ryanair promotion I’ve added a distinctive to my Mediterranean Islands experiences. Corfu, instead of Malta or Cyprus, is a really quiet island, characterized by a thick vegetation and a families and couples type of tourism.

Amsterdam, July

This time I’ve managed to sleep again in a botel, typical accommodation that gives the opportunity of sleeping inside a big boat berthed in the capital’s Port city. Very recommended experience.

Sofia and Berlin and Bratislava and Paris and Tenerife, September

This is absolutely the craziest trip I’ve ever made.
Five countries, four capitals, very different climates, everything in three weeks.
It was even the most challenging travel within my experiences, with booking and transportations I had really a big amount of work to do in order to reach the next step time by time.
But it was really magnificent to see the beauties of these so much different countries in a small time: I have learnt in a significant way the peculiarity and the differences of everyone. For this travel my personal most-beautiful-city prize goes to Berlin.

2017

Reykjavik, January

Incredible life experience the one that bring me to visit for a week the remote Iceland in January. An island really out of the World, in my opinion imaginable like a Lanzarote transposed in a really cold place. Lunar and really cold landscapes, with a very low population density that makes you drive into the long road streets (really not that much) seeing few cars around in hours. With this peculiarity the beautifulness of some incredible landscapes is even more emphasized. The unique negative fact, in my opinion, is a quite high cost of almost everything.

London, March

Touch and go in the United Kingdom to celebrate my birthday and my tenth time in the city.

Belgrade, June

I used this travel for professional purposes, using this city as a ‘buen retiro’ to start works and studies that made me open this blog. At the same time I’ve also discovered beauties and typical dishes of this balkan city that is very cheap and hasn’t to envy any other famous capital in Europe.

Few days to the start of BIT but the itinerary is almost done.
I suggest to whom doesn’t already red the Biking Italy Tour’s page to do it right now 🙂
BIT is a road trip to discover Italy by bicycle, it will last 40 days (from 31 august to 9 october 2017), it will cross 14 regions and make me ride my bike for 2400 kilometers, tracing everything inside this travel blog.

Here below the complete itinerary, followed by a small video that shows every step in detail thanks to Google Earth.

13 days to go and the works for the travel are almost done; however there are some aspects that needs to your support.

If you are the boss of an accommodation on the itinerary and want to join the enterprise,
if you are an artist and want to give your song for the soundtrack,
if you are a company and want to be showed as a sponsor,
if you are a biker and want to run a bit with me,just contact me!
Thank you 🙂